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Re: Working from home is powering productivity

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Post by oangemangut »

Olumde wrote: post #90
purple-leafy wrote: post #24

Work from home makes me LOYAL to a company, and makes me work my arse off! If you want to keep good employees, give them agency. I do hybrid, I’m half-half from home and in the office. I work so hard when I work from home, and I’m so happy when I work from home, my desk is setup how I need, I get free coffee, I can listen to music, my dog sleeps on the bed. Most importantly, more of the work gets done. I think the op…

I WFH 100% of the time. This allows my spouse and I to work. Without this one of us would have to leave the workforce to take the children to school. But because I WFH I can do the school runs and I realize I have it so good, it makes me unwilling to consider any other potential job offers. And BTW, because I don't have to commute 3 hours like I used to I can now work as late if a task requires me to. So yeah the abi…

just curious how this works, do the kids just need a lift home and you can continue to work? Just wondering how you fit a full day in even with WFH (asking because both spouse and I are 3+ days in office and pickup/drop off kinda happen before/after the work days so WFH isn't make a big difference for us, personally)

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

#102

Post by bvirb »

l33tbro wrote: post #27

I despair a little at this. If I can do my job at home, then surely somebody can do it in the global south in tandem with AI for peanuts. Client-facing stuff gets centralised to a smaller team of specialists, and the ship gets much tighter. How long until megacorps and SMEs actually execute this reality? The management class and their unnecessary underlings like me have only been so resilient because companies are st…

> Going from 10 to 10,000 qualified candidates for a position allows a far more productive match

Yeah going from 10 to 10k qualified candidates means wages go down. As companies get better and better at WFH the pool gets bigger and bigger.

Personally I think some industries will go this way and others will go RTO, depending on how competitive they are (especially around R&D). Wages for relocation/RTO will end up rising.

On the flip side: I've heard people saying software is going to be offshored and has no future at least since the 90s dot-com bust, they were still saying it in the 2000s when I was in school, so I'm skeptical that the growth of WFH will overcome all the barriers to global hiring.

Ultimately I think WFH wages will go down/stagnate (of course w/ higher quality of life for many) and companies that want it will have to pay significantly more for someone willing to RTO.

I also think it only takes one unicorn to say "we did it by having everyone RTO!" to flip everything back around.

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

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Post by roland35 »

purple-leafy wrote: post #24

Work from home makes me LOYAL to a company, and makes me work my arse off! If you want to keep good employees, give them agency. I do hybrid, I’m half-half from home and in the office. I work so hard when I work from home, and I’m so happy when I work from home, my desk is setup how I need, I get free coffee, I can listen to music, my dog sleeps on the bed. Most importantly, more of the work gets done. I think the op…

Free coffee? Dang, I have to buy mine at the grocery store :) at least I can drink my loose leaf tea at home though!

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

#104

Post by spatley »

In my field of IT consulting I find the opposite to be true. Developing a shared understanding of client challenges, getting leaders to make and follow through on decisions, and learning our way around customer ecosystems takes forever over Teams, slack, or email.

If we knew exactly what needed to be done and were just cranking code I see how solitude works. But the constant streams of low bandwidth meetings to make decisions is brutal.

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

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Post by buildfocus »

l33tbro wrote: post #27

I despair a little at this. If I can do my job at home, then surely somebody can do it in the global south in tandem with AI for peanuts. Client-facing stuff gets centralised to a smaller team of specialists, and the ship gets much tighter. How long until megacorps and SMEs actually execute this reality? The management class and their unnecessary underlings like me have only been so resilient because companies are st…

Offshoring & distribution of remote work may be bad for you but very very good for humanity.

There will still be local opportunities and huge benefits of being in the first world due to better education and networks. Those benefits will be diluted by remote work/offshoring increasing, and others will benefit due to that.

Probably the increased productivity itself will boost everything for everybody (better matches of employees & employers = higher productivity & cheaper products everywhere... eventually) but in times of change it can be rough in the short term if your income depended on a tightly protected market and the protection just disappeared.

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

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Post by ipaddr »

azemetre wrote: post #91
ozim wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Benefit for the employee can be cut off any time. Benefit for the company will go on forever. I will stay on the ground where WFH is benefit for the company. That is what I believe and I want everyone to believe and I do not care what any kind of research will say. Just if employees will force it in that way it will be.

Benefits can be enshrined in law, you should see what European countries have legislated at the benefit of workers some time.

But they won't and it will be limited if anything makes it into law.

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

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Post by roland35 »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #99
oxidant wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"gay" in that sense is a pejorative against homosexual people. You could almost make it work with the original definition though. From Wikipedia - > Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'.

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Re: Working from home is powering productivity

#108

Post by azemetre »

schwartzworld wrote: post #93
hu3 wrote: post #35

I love working from home and I plan to keep doing it. But I can't deny that when a coworker needs help, rolling my chair next to theirs in office allows for a much larger bandwidth of knowledge sharing. On the other hand my production skyrockets at home.

One on one knowledge sharing is the worst kind though. I can’t search through your verbal conversations.

That's fair but there's something to be said of physically being around someone constantly and learning off of each other. It's how I learned vim, it's how I learned about neovim, it's how I learned about the majority of command line tools I use everyday.

That being said, I do WFH and cherish the job for allowing me so but I wouldn't have a problem going into an office if it was a 30 minute walk from where I live. I feel like most people hate their commutes than working in an office.

If we could all be a 10 minute walk from the office, would more people work in them? I'd think yes, absolutely yes.

Re: Working from home is powering productivity

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Post by [deleted] »

oangemangut wrote: post #101
Olumde wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I WFH 100% of the time. This allows my spouse and I to work. Without this one of us would have to leave the workforce to take the children to school. But because I WFH I can do the school runs and I realize I have it so good, it makes me unwilling to consider any other potential job offers. And BTW, because I don't have to commute 3 hours like I used to I can now work as late if a task requires me to. So yeah the abi…

just curious how this works, do the kids just need a lift home and you can continue to work? Just wondering how you fit a full day in even with WFH (asking because both spouse and I are 3+ days in office and pickup/drop off kinda happen before/after the work days so WFH isn't make a big difference for us, personally)

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